Education

• Culture Bearer: Trained by elders in her community.
• A.A.S., Office Management and Technology

Biography

June (Simeonoff) Pardue is an Alutiiq and Inupiaq artist who resides in remote Sutton, Alaska. Originally from Old Harbor Village on Kodiak Island, June is recognized as an Alutiiq grass weaver, fish skin tanner, fish leather and sea mammal skin sewer, jeweler, and beader. During June’s fifty year career as an artist, museums have collected her work—beaded headdresses, grass baskets and grass socks, jewelry, and Alutiiq garments are in permanent collections at the Alutiiq Museum, Palmer Historical Museum, Autry National Center in Los Angeles, Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, the Arctic Studies Center in Maine, and at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska. 

Teaching Responsibilities

• Beginning Native Arts
• Intermediate Native Arts
• Advanced Native Arts
  
• Fish Skin Tanning
  
• Alaska Native Art History
  
• Cultural Knowledge of our Elders
  

Career History/Work Experience

• Cultural Instructor and Mentor, Knik Tribal Council, Palmer, AK
• Wellness and Prevention Program, Knik Tribal Council, Palmer, AK
• Cultural Instructor, Matanuska Susitna Borough School District, Wasilla, AK
• Alaska Native Cultural Instructor, UAF Extension, Aleutian Islands

Volunteer Work

• Basket Exhibit Assistant, Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, AK
• Art Council Member, Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, AK
• Indian Education Committee Member, Matanuska Susitna Borough School District, Wasilla, AK
• Alaska Native Cultures Club Elder Advisor, UAA Matanuska Susitna Campus, Wasilla, AK
• Education Department, Chickaloon Village Council, Chickaloon, AK
• Shareholder Information Committee, Koniag Corporation, Anchorage, AK